DT in the studio again!

[Cedar redaC]

LaBrie looks pretty buffed up in that picture. Did he steal Petcrucci's arms from this shot?

James stole nothing. However, he may have pirated them.....

[BlackInk]

LaBrie looks pretty buffed up in that picture. Did he steal Petcrucci's arms from this shot?

James stole nothing. However, he may have pirated them.....

I applaud your wordplay good sir.

[JayOctavarium]

 
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Someone needs to make this

[MoraWintersoul]

LaBrie looks pretty buffed up in that picture. Did he steal Petcrucci's arms from this shot?

James stole nothing. However, he may have pirated them.....

I applaud your wordplay good sir.

[DebraKadabra]

 

[darkshade]

[jonnybaxy]

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

[DebraKadabra]

 

[Nest777]

Jamming with the amazing Scott Tibbs in the studio!

[wasteland]

Who is this guy? 

[Sketchy]

Dunno, but Jordan's activated Rainbow-Mode.

[YtseJamittaja]

Who is this guy? 

Looks like some crazy British shepherd.

[wasteland]

Looks like Tibbs is a Roland man, judging on the first youtube video I found googling his name. He may be introducing Jordan with a new keyboard station.

[YtseJamittaja]

Looks like Tibbs is a Roland man, judging on the first youtube video I found googling his name. He may be introducing Jordan with a new keyboard station.

Or a guest musician? 

[wasteland]

Looks like Tibbs is a Roland man, judging on the first youtube video I found googling his name. He may be introducing Jordan with a new keyboard station.

Or a guest musician? 

I don't think so. The guy looks like a Roland tech/promoter, rather than a professional musician. And even if he was a professional musician, why would DT invite a keyboard player to guest in their album? In the past they invited guests to perform on instruments that none of the members could play.

[Zydar]

Second to last on this page:

https://www.rolandus.com/news_events/events_clinics/our_team/

[wasteland]

Orchestrator. Interesting.

[YtseJamittaja]

Uuuh! Look at those biceps! And 7-string!!

[Sketchy]

Damn, for a minute I got excited and thought that was a fretless guitar.

[BlackInk]

Yes, 7-string bad-assery on the way!

[hefdaddy42]

By the way either MM"s turning into MP or MP is a raging alcoholic again, beer bottle at bottom of picture... (presumably a beer bottle) drinking in studio

Yes, because one beer bottle in a photo means they had a rager.

[The Stray Seed]

He studied at Berklee.

[Orbert]

Jamming with the amazing Scott Tibbs in the studio!

I've always loved the multicolored switches on Roland keyboards, and I'm glad they're back.  I remember playing a Roland back in the 70's and it had the multicolored switches.

And come on, guys.  They call him Mister Tibbs.

[wasteland]

And come on, guys.  They call him Mister Tibbs.

It's lovely that the Italian translation of the title goes like "Neon homicide for detective Tibbs" 

[SuperTaco]

Uuuh! Look at those biceps! And 7-string!!

Amazing gear aside, I think this is one of the best pictures of JP in recent memory. He looks relaxed, but motivated. As always I'm excited to hear what kind of awesomeness he produces with that 7-string.

[TheGreatPretender]

Amazing gear aside, I think this is one of the best pictures of JP in recent memory. He looks relaxed, but motivated. As always I'm excited to hear what kind of awesomeness he produces with that 7-string.

I gotta say you're right. Now, I'll be the first person to sing praises to Systematic Chaos, I love that album to death. But I remember watching the documentary, and they were doing those outdoor interviews, and I was like, "Aww, man, what happened to Pettruci? He used to have such eye of the tiger. Now he looks like a tired old man. Where's the fire?"

It was just outdoors though, maybe it was windy or something. But yeah, great picture.

[gentaishinigami]

I'm glad Petrucci is slimming down, even if just a bit.  I feel like he got so big his playing suffered.  Just talking out of my ass but I would think after a point your mass would just slow you down and make you that much less nimble/flexible on the guitar (plus like every super-shredder is pretty skinny), and watching him play some solos live around the 2010 era had him making more mistakes than ever in solos he usually breezed through.  Then again, he could just be getting older and suffering the consequences at a coincidental time. 

Also, I was going to right-click Petrucci in Firefox to add it to the dictionary and it recommended Firetruck as the word it thought I wanted.  Oh man, so perfect.

[MoraWintersoul]

I think the last thing JP would do is just about anything that could impact his playing, and that he would debate all of the possible physical consequences before starting to work out seriously. And considering the huge range of superb guitarist body types, from Michael Romeo to Steve Vai, I'd say you could be just about any size and still be an amazing player.

[gentaishinigami]

Perhaps, just my inner thoughts on the matter.  I will say he is obviously still an amazing player (and was in the era I was referring to) but I was saying he wasn't quite as amazing as Budokan era JP.  I'm pretty sure even at the worst point in his life he'd still rank better than 95% of guitarist lol.

So basically it wasn't "big muscles means a player can't be that good" or something, it was more of "is big JP less nimble/accurate than skinny JP".  Anybody and any size can be a great player, but the same person in two body types - which one was more favorable to playing guitar in killzone mode.

[MajorMatt]

Interesting to see JP trying out the Mesa Royal Atlantic, judging by the timescale it'll probably make an appearance on the album too.

[wasteland]

There was nothing wrong with his shredding in 2010 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx9dJWUS9WU&t=10m

[gentaishinigami]

Of course he didn't mess up everything he played! =P  You misunderstand me.  When I say he made mistakes more often it's more of a nitpick.  I'm a huge JP fanboy, own his signature (working on a 2nd), all his tab books, always watching live performances on youtube and such.  It just seemed to me that as his mass went up his accuracy live very slowly was taking a hit.  He of course slayed often too its not like he got awful or something.

It's like talking about a car going 100 usually and then doing 98 (and now hes pretty much back).  Not a large difference just something I noticed watching him over the last 12 years.


For an example of what I mean with it slowing you down a little (a George Lynch interview):
"Revolution Magazine: Are you still bodybuilding?

Lynch: No, that's one of the silliest things I've ever done. I felt so anti-musical. Even the guys from VH1 were making fun of me. It also makes it difficult to play. But no, I just work out now to stay in shape."

[TheGreatPretender]

I'd say you could be just about any size and still be an amazing player.

And here I thought you'd need something smaller.

[Marion Crane]

Honestly? First thing I noticed was the Royal Alantic head, which I'm frankly shocked that no one has mentioned yet

[Big Hath]

Honestly? First thing I noticed was the Royal Alantic head, which I'm frankly shocked that no one has mentioned yet

Interesting to see JP trying out the Mesa Royal Atlantic, judging by the timescale it'll probably make an appearance on the album too.